[62.] To make Bayberry or Myrtle Soap.

To a pound of bayberry tallow, put a pint of potash lye, strong enough to bear up an egg. Boil them together till it becomes soap. Then put in half a tea cup of cold water, let it boil several minutes longer. Take it off, and when partly cooled put in a few drops of the essence of wintergreen, pour it into moulds and let it remain several days. This soap is good for shaving, and is an excellent thing for chapped hands and eruptions on the face.

[63.] Cold Soap.

To twenty pounds of white potash put ten of grease, previously melted and strained. Mix it well together with a pailful of cold water, let it remain several days, then stir in several more pailsful of cold water. Continue to pour in cold water at intervals of two or three days, stirring it up well each time. As soon as the water begins to thin it, it is time to leave off adding it. This method of making soap is much easier than any other, while it is equally cheap and good. If you have not land to enrich with your ashes they can be disposed of to advantage at the soap boiler's.

THE END.

Transcriber's Note

The following typographical errors were corrected.

PageErrorCorrection
[vii]6797
[ix]Apple DumplingsApple Dumplings,
[x]woolen Shawlswoolen Shawls,
[3]petrepetre,
[4]and alspice and allspice
[4]when severl sliceswhen several slices
[4]mix a tea spoonfullmix a tea spoonful
[11]pigs ear'spig's ears
[15]fow sfowls
[15]Cold VealCold Veal.
[21]rice, and a a lb.rice, and a lb.
[25]twenty minutes,twenty minutes.
[61]whites of threee ggs,whites of three eggs,
[63]to your tase.to your taste.
[71]sugar, half a tea spoonsfulsugar, half a tea spoonful
[71]nutmeg, and a table spoonsfulnutmeg, and a table spoonful
[74]by the spoonsfulby the spoonful
[89]be fit to tobe fit to
[108]without any soap,without any soap.